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2025-06-01: This is now the official upstream repository of smartmontools observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools · homepage · C++ · GPL-2.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

67/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3260
  • days_rel: 478
  • days_push: 9
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1326 stars · 276 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Smartmontools provides two utilities, smartctl and smartd, for controlling and monitoring storage systems using the SMART technology built into ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe disks. It gives advanced warning of disk degradation and failure across many operating systems.

Use cases

  • check disk health with SMART data
  • monitor NVMe drive temperature and wear
  • get email alerts when a disk is failing
  • run periodic SMART self-tests on drives
  • diagnose why a hard drive is making errors
  • monitor disk health on a headless server

When to choose

  • you need to monitor disk health on Linux, BSD, macOS, or Windows servers
  • you want early warning of drive failure via SMART attributes
  • you need a mature, scriptable CLI for ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe devices

When to avoid

  • you need a GUI dashboard for storage health
  • you only need filesystem-level monitoring rather than hardware SMART data

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

monitoring alerting cli developer-tools operating-systems hardware windows bsd cross-platform cli smart disk-health nvme storage-monitoring hardware-diagnostics linux macos

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Member repositories

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